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I bumped into the same issue myself. Here's the Yahoo Answers post on the subject. The selected answer from that post recommends maintaining a separate section for each page:

Each header and footer is "linked" for
each section. So if you make each page
a separate "section" (i.e., section
break instead of a page break), then
you can unlink the footers and place a
different footer for each section.

This is the only way I know that will
allow the different footer for each
page.

That's a terrible hassle in my opinion, so I decided to waive having different footers on each page. Sadly I'm not aware of any alternative neat solution in Microsoft Word. This is definitely a feature request: Microsoft - please add a checkbox for "Different Footer on Every Page".

will display the first four lines of The Raven on pages 1-4. Here’s a (slightly hairy) procedure that will let you enter the above to play with it (and, of course, you can change the text).

Edit the footer.

Copy the following text:

IF PAGE = 1 "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"
IF PAGE = 2 "Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore —"
IF PAGE = 3 "While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,"
"As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."

into the footer.

Select each of the words and phrases that appears in braces in the first code block (sequentially) and press Ctrl+F9. A possible order:

Each occurrence of PAGE (one at a time).

From (the beginning of) the third IF through the very end
(after door.").

From (the beginning of) the second IF through the very end.

From (the beginning of) the first IF through the very end.

This will convert each of those strings to a field, and, consequently,
add the { and } to the display.

Right-click on the first IF and select “Toggle Field Codes”.

Close the footer.

Explanation

(In case any is needed)

Basically, this is Microsoft Word’s implementation of the IF-THEN-ELSE construct
that is common in programming languages, as in

IF Todays’s date is 1
THEN
Today is Monday
ELSE IF Todays’s date is 2
THEN
Today is Tuesday
ELSE IF Todays’s date is 3
THEN
Today is Wednesday
ELSE
Here comes the weekend!
END IF

Well there is a very easy way to do this. Before you begin writing your document you need to go to the Reference tab. At the tab there will be "insert footnote" and "insert endnote" buttons.

At the bottom of the section where those buttons are located there is a small arrow you can click to open up the advanced settings for footnotes. Click the bubble for footnote, and make sure all the settings are to your liking.

Click "Apply" then "OK"

From now on, whenever you want to insert a footnote for citations or whatever you want, put your period for the end of the sentence, go to the insert tab, click "Insert Footnote," type your footnote, double click your document and continue writing. This way, all footnotes will be independent of one another and you won't have to deal with footnotes being copied over on every page.

If you just click on the part of the text which is where the footnote relates to and click on the references tab and then add footnote it places a number in the text and in the footer for you to type your additional information and will only display on that page.

First of All insert Section Break on
every page which you want to make
different then click on Footer Section
you'll see in ur footer right section
same as previous now click on tool bar
Header & Footer Link to Previous again
now "same as previous will be
disappear"

I am not sure I know enough about your
document to come up with a solution.
However, I am wondering whether you
could use STYLEREF fields in the
header. A STYLEREF field can pick up
the contents of text formatted with a
specific style. If the information you
need to show to the header is found
directly on the page, you could format
the text with a special style made for
that purpose and make the STYLEREF
field pick up the text.

A STYLEREF field inserted in a header
(or footer) prints the first (or last)
text formatted with the specified
style on the current page. The field
is automatically updated whenever you
change the text in the document. If no
text formatted with the style in
question is found on a page, the
STYLEREF field repeats the same text
on all subsequent pages until another
occurrence of the specified style is
found.

I believe that this is, in principle, the best answer listed here. But I believe that it’s unusable due to lack of detail. Would you please try to distill the procedure into something brief and post it here?
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ScottApr 4 '13 at 21:53

This is not a separate answer. This is a detail of the very first answer (posted Sep 26, 2009 by Roee Adler) that got left out. This does no good (in fact, it doesn’t do anything) unless the document is already broken down into tiny sections.
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ScottApr 3 '13 at 21:31